A few blog posts ago I mentioned that during our time off in July we had opted for a 'staycation'. We do normally venture further afield but this year, somehow, we decided to stay at home. That didn't mean we had to be boring though and as we have very luckily stayed in most of…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we had the chance to escape to the country a few weeks ago, thankfully on a weekend when the sun shone pretty much the whole time ! I thought I would share some pictures of the beautiful place we stayed in, Birch Cottage, an off grid self catering cottage…
Slightly belatedly, I thought I would share some details on our final day in Berlin and the sights we took in before flying home to Belfast. We had discovered that the Berlin Wall Memorial was a stone's throw from our hotel in Berlin Mitte and within a five minute walk after breakfast we had arrived there.…
According to my Fitbit, I had walked 8 miles on my very first day in Berlin so the following morning I allowed myself a lie-in in our lovely hotel called i31, so called because it is number 31 on Invalidenstrasse, one of the main arterial routes into the city running from east to west ( the…
The week before last I finally got to go to Berlin - a trip that was booked immediately after returning from a fabulous holiday in Menorca last September (which I blogged about here and here). Does anyone else do that - book another holiday as soon as they get back from one? I was so full of wanderlust…
Ciutadella is a small town on the western coast of Menorca, about a 15 minute bus journey from the resort of Cala en Bosch where we recently stayed on holiday at the beginning of September. To be honest, I had never heard of this place and when you are enjoying a mojito by the pool on…
Having returned home to a chillier, autumnal climate, I am already reminiscing about our recent holiday to Menorca. And, in particular, a warm, balmy evening spent just sitting by the sea watching the sun slowly set. Turning the sky from a bright golden amber to a soft peachy hue before melting into the horizon. Then walking home…
